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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0029. Dedication to Commodus by Messius Rufinus

Description: Nine fragments from two marble architrave blocks, 0.525, original length c. 2.44
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: a) - d) Lapidary capitals: 0.11. e) - g) Lapidary capitals: 0.11, erased. h) - i) Lapidary capitals: 0.095, Inscribed above a partially erased inscription, from which h (reinscribed) and i can be made out.

Date: 186-189 CE: GODOT and GODOT (titulature)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio V, (insula 7) Temple of Hercules, from the surrounding portico.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

a and b
[---]ad cons[um]ationem[---]
c
[---] Messius [R]ufinus c(larissimae) m(emoriae) [u(ir)---]
d
[---]uerat
e
[---]⟦rus iu⟧[---]
f
[---]⟦di⟧[---]
g
⟦[--- im]p(erator)- VIII co(n)s(ul)- V p̣[(at)]- [p(atriae)---]⟧
h
«Imp(erator)-» [---]
i
[---] « [M(arc)]- Aur[eli]- » [---]

Diplomatic

a and b
[---]ADCONS[..]ATIONEM[---]
c
[---]MESSIUS[.]UFINUSCM[.---]
d
[---]UERAT
e
[---]⟦RUSIU⟧[---]
f
[---]⟦DI⟧[---]
g
⟦[---..]PVIIICOSV.[.---]⟧
h
«IMP»[---]
i
[---]«[.]AUR[...]»[---]

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. + b. [---] with a view to ? accomplishing [---]

c. [---] Messius Rufinus, a man of outstanding memory (i.e. a deceased Roman senator) [---]

d. - f. Not usefully translateable

g. [---] acclaimed victor eight times, consul five times, father [of the country ---]

h. Emperor [---] (or) acclaimed victor [---] (Repeated in recut text)

i. [--- M(arcus)] Aurelius [---] (case unknown)

Commentary

Messius Rufinus: PIR, M 0520a https://pir.bbaw.de/id/9199

h) - i) probably recut under Septimius Severus.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 29, whence IRT, 2009, 29, whence EDH 059024; G. Caputo in Aiosa, 2013, 23-26, nos. 13-25, whence AE, 2013.1759

Images

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